Protector for heels and soles of shoes.



- PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1903.

R. A RBGBSTER. PROTECTOR FOR HEELS AND SOLBS OF SHOES.

APPIJOATIOI FILED AUG. 9, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT A. REGESTER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO ACME HEEL PROTECTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BALTIMORE, MARY- LAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

PROTECTOR FOR HEELS AND SOLES OF SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,484, dated September 8, 1903.. Application filed August 9, 1902. Serial No. 119.078, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT A. REGESTER, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Protectors for Heels and Soles of Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a protectorv constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 a plan view of the same.

My invention relates to protectors for the heels "and soles of shoes of the type shown in the United States patent to A. G. lVilliams,No. 661,832, dated November 13, 1900, which consists of a transversely-corrugated or sinuous ribbon or strip and teeth or tangs whose entering ends are blunt, the crimps or bends of the strip being comparatively short. The heel-protector of said patent is a most excellent one; but use thereof has shown the desirability of improving it in respect to the form of the tangs orteeth, their form in crosssection being flat or straight; and the object of my invention is to improve this type of protector in respect to the tangs or teeth; and to this end my invention consists in the protector for heels and soles of shoes constructed substantially as hereinafter specified and claimed.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the main or body portion of my protector, the same being of ribbon or strip-like form corrugated transversely in a sinuous or undulating form, the crimps being curved and preferably each substantially semicircular. Projecting from one edge of the body at points slightly separated from each other are the tangs or teeth 13, which may be located at any point longitudinally of the body, but which, whatever be their location, have a curvature in cross-section corresponding with that of the body portion from which they project, their form in this respect being unlike the form of the tangs of said Patent No.

661,838. Like the tangs of the protector Of said patent, however, their entering ends are blunt and they are of substantially uniform cross-sectional area throughout their length. In view of the comparative sharpness of the curves which are thus given the tangs in crosssection the degree of their curvature is such as to greatly stiffen them, so that they will be driven or forced into the leather with out bending or breaking. Besides being thus stiffened or strengthened the coincidence of the tangs with the body of the protector eliminates the weakness of the connection of the tang with the body which exists when the tang is flat or straight in cross-section and also obviates the danger of bending or breaking of the tang when it is driven or forced into the leather, since the pressure or blow of the driving means is transmitted directly to the tang through the body A at all points.

My protector can be given any general form desired either for the purpose of ornamentation or to adapt it to the requirements of the use to which it is to be put.

Having thus described my invention,wl1at I claim is 1. A protector, consisting of a transverselycorrugated or sinuous strip of metal having tangs whose entering ends are blunt and that are curved in cross-section, and of substantially uniform cross-sectional area throughout their length.

2. A protector, consisting of a transverselycorrugated. or sinuous strip of metal having tangs whose entering ends are blunt and that are curved in cross-section in correspondence with the curvature of the crimped portion of the strip to which they are attached and are of substantially uniform cross-sectional area throughout their length.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I A have hereunto set my hand.

ROBERT A. REGESTER.

lVitnesses 'lnos. H. SANKS, DANIEL W. JAMES. 

